Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.019823356240012746
- Coordinates
- RA 15.7796° · Dec -6.9883°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Right ascension
- 01 03 07.1
- Declination
- −06 ° 59 ′ 18 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5,891 km/s
- Type
- SABbc
- Apparent size v
- 1.5' × 0.8'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 78.00
- Image
- NGC 0356 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.019650
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2476099090535962368
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1864-09-27
- apparent magnitude
- 9.664
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- Commons category
- NGC 356
- right ascension
- 15.77955118539750
- declination
- -6.98832579146190
- radial velocity
- 5803
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 356 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864 by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, small, irregularly round."
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 356” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.